The purpose of the present study is to show the narrative as a methodology that enables the learning about the other's apparent and hidden world. The other may be a client or a member of the nursing team. At first, authors present their general view showing the narrative as a way of reporting the exceptional, the drama experienced by a group, and a form of acting upon a drama situation. Subsequently, authors who use the narrative to represent diseases are presented. Finally, authors show the narrative as a possibility offered to nursing to interpret and act upon its practice.
methodology; nursing